“Hwuuu…”

 

The distant sound of someone sobbing echoed familiarly.

 

Was a banshee crying again?

 

The voices that sounded were quite a bit different from one, though.

 

“Hwuuuuu…”

 

“You can stop.”

 

Oh, was it just a dream?

 

A dark room slowly became clearer. I’d seen this room before.

 

As the darkness surrounding me gradually ebbed away, I saw a woman crying, standing in front of a balcony and rubbing the heel of her palm against her chest. A man was moving closer to her.

 

I couldn’t see their faces, but a strange sense of familiarity washed over me. The thought of having met this couple somewhere else passed me by.

 

Oh, that’s right. I had had a dream like this once before.

 

Yes, in another place, at another time, that woman had been smiling wickedly, and that man…

 

“Isn’t it time you stopped with the bad acting?”

 

The woman quit her wailing. “What if I don’t want to?”

 

“Ah, you’re really driving me crazy.”

 

“As expected, it doesn’t work on you,” I couldn’t see it, but I could feel the woman sneering. “You’re so annoying, you know that, right?”

 

The sadness ailing her vanished in an instant, something menacing gracing her features instead. I still couldn’t see what she looked like, but I felt the aggression dripping from her echoing and settling in my bones.

 

The man looming over her seemed to be very angry. “You turned the court banquet into a damn circus show. Have you no shame?”

 

“That girl was asking for it. What did you want me to do?”

 

“Did you fight with her just cause she asked you a question? Why don’t you pick a fight with the entire world then?”

 

“You weren’t even there, so what do you know? Right, it must’ve been your little sister that told you. Of course, she must have chosen her side again. She always does.”

 

The woman gave a bitter laugh, the air turning sullen.

 

“Watch your mouth.”

 

“Oh, don’t deny it, you know it’s true. And what if I don’t watch my mouth? Will you hit me? Don’t even joke around, because we both know you won’t.”

 

I was starting to worry a little for the woman.

 

She was deliberately targeting her opponent’s weak spots, his rage already reaching its breaking point. The harsh breaths he took was the only sound that could be heard in this dark and empty room.

 

“You’re such a bad f**king girl.”

 

“And you’re so handsome,” she swooned, ridicule but also honesty honeying her sweet voice.

 

“Consider it an honor then, if you’re willing to admit it.”

 

“Hah! An honor? You?”

 

“Anything you’re dissatisfied with? Tell me, since I’m your so-called husband.”

 

“I’m dissatisfied with your existence itself.”

 

your existence, you

 

The mood was strange.

 

two were seriously fighting, but they couldn’t take their eyes off

 

turn around any minute now, storming out of the door if not taking swings at each other before that.

 

almost chest to chest

 

my appearance you’re

 

like that, it didn’t mean anything. There are a hell of a lot more attractive men much better-looking than you in

 

doing here, then? Hurry up and go

 

“You’re a damn j*rk.”

 

other, right?” The man came closer, as if there was still space left between them.

 

participate in the

 

“Hell no!”

 

“Then I won’t either!”

 

hair and dug her nails into the back of his neck, pulling him close

 

man was twice her size, but

 

couldn’t help but wonder where I was, who these people were, and why I was here, as I took in the scene of

 

now, and the sounds of heavy breaths and desperate kissing filled the dark chamber. The only source of light came from the moon raining down on the couple clutching each other tightly

 

yet macabre. Sad and hopeless and wretched all at the same

 

woman’s eyes

 

only a ghost in this dream, after all. Someone from the

 

somehow, that woman smiled at me—a

 

my chest broke and smashed into pieces. The face I hadn’t been able to see

 

The woman was me.

 

that’s

 

Then, that man is…

 

see, to make sense of it, but it was as if someone had turned

 

man and the woman vanished and I lost myself to the shadows in this

 

***

 

right into my eyes had

 

to lift my hand, but it

 

Who got me here?

 

memories as I slowly woke up, I turned my eyes to my right, the feeling of someone else’s arm underneath me

 

I wanted to cry.

 

overjoyed to see him safe and lying next to me, looking like he hadn’t just gone through hell and back, but there were no

 

eyes leaving no part of his face untouched. He did

 

He looked miserable, though.

 

fingers through his bangs, the movement taking everything out of me, but my

 

a whisper

 

wasn’t really thinking of anything. It felt like it didn’t

 

in my previous life and everything I had done in this life,

 

like a stranger in my

 

like him, the voice I answered him with was low and hoarse as well, a whisper I breathed out. “Because I

 

“What…?”

 

me. All I was, was an illusion. Once it broke, everyone changed. It’s

 

well, something that had revealed itself to me time and

 

my adoptive parents had been with me once they realized I wasn’t what they had wanted me to be. When my brother had had enough of my sniveling and groveling and breaking down, when I wasn’t the perfect sister, always composed and worthy of the family

 

been like

 

“Always.”

 

I knew it wasn’t me he was directing

 

a situation where I’m hated without doing anything. I can’t

 

with my numb finger, gently at first until I pressed hard on the bone of his cheek, wondering

 

gazing at me with that

 

embrace me fully, enveloping

 

instead, putting my own arm around his wide torso and burying my head in the juncture where his shoulder and

 

why my

 

I

 

it’s not your fault.

 

suffering-from-main-character-disease arrogant

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